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Today 10 years ago I got a Firefox OS phone (jemmy.jeena.net)

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Today 10 years ago I went to Poland to buy a Phone with pre installed #Firefox OS on. The Phone was a Alcatel One, so very shitty. Two years later I installed Firefox OS on my Nexus 5 instead.

It was a very good concept, but sadly rolled out on too shitty hardware so it never caught on.

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[-] rikudou 4 points 1 year ago

Or SailfishOS! Has Android layer where apps can run seamlessly (without some hardware stuff support, like fingerprint etc.).

[-] Shatur@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Want to mention that on GNU/Linux we also have Waydroid that provides Android app support :)

[-] rikudou 2 points 1 year ago

I know about that, but from my experience nothing really compares to the ease of use of the SFOS AlienDalvik. Though something may have changed since I last checked (1.5 years ago).

[-] Shatur@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mostly wrote it for other readers.

Also used both, I would say they are similar. But Waydroid can't forward notifications to the main OS as in Sailfish. Sad that AlienDalvik is not FOSS :(

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